School Daze

My four day weekend has come to and end and I’ve got class tomorrow. It’s Art History, potentially the most boring class on the face of the planet, so naturally I do not want to go.

It’s so boring that I couldn’t even finish the homework tonight. Now I’ve got to get up early and get it done. It’s no so bad, since I don’t have class until 1pm, but I really wish I didn’t have any work to do at all. But I’m planning on getting all of my work for the rest of the week and most of next week done tomorrow so that I don’t have anything to worry about. I’m an excellent procrastinator, so I guess we’ll just have to see how that goes.

Sometimes I really wish I just had a job instead. I could go to work, come home at night, and leave work at work. I wouldn’t have homework to deal with and my non-work time would be my time to do whatever I wanted. It’s really frustrating sometimes.

Seven

Sometimes its hard to believe that 7 years ago today that tall, strange kid from robotics that I was fascinated with asked me out. Ever since then my life has been a whirlwind and Mike has been there every step of the way. We got off to a rocky start due mainly to the desperate and slightly pathetic attempts by his ex to get him back, but we stuck it out through everything. We’ve had our highs and our lows, we’ve sworn never to be apart again and taken time off from each other to avoid the complete self-destruction of our relationship. It has been a crazy 7 years, but they’re years that I would never trade for anything else.

7 years in photos… Read the rest of this entry »

Productive Day Was Productive

Originally I had planned on getting up early today and getting a bunch of chores done. I woke up around 10, saw that it was raining out, and immediately went back to sleep for another two hours. Around 12:30 I finally pulled myself out of bed and decided that I was going to get this list done today whether I wanted to or not. First thing: cleaning and organizing my room.

I decided that my bedside stand had to go. It was ugly, too big, too short, and only had one drawer to store things in. So I shoved it under my bed and after a bit of shopping around on the Internet, I went over to Bed Bath and Beyond to pick up a three-drawer stand as a replacement. I love it because it’s got more storage room, but doesn’t take up even half as much floorspace.

Now, a few hours and a large trash bag later my room is completely clean. Everything is put away, all of the papers, etc. that I didn’t need have been thrown away, and I even made my bed! Go me!

I’ve still got some chores to do around here like finishing my laundry, but I’m not as worried about that since tomorrow is a holiday and that means I don’t have class until 1 on Wednesday.

I've Got Nothing

I really don’t have anything to say tonight, but I just felt like I should blog.

So I guess all I’ll say is that I luff the girls from Ecstasy because they’re freaking awesome!

I spent all day today being lazy! Even took my picture with my laptop webcam… THATS how lazy I was being. But it’s been a good day and I’m actually looking forward to tomorrow for once!

Mikey and Soda!

Don’t have much to write tonight since Michael is here for a limited amount of time and I want to spend it with him. Just have a few key highlights of the day.

• Yay for it being so warm that I barely needed my sweatshirt today
• My Web Development class is going to be so boring that I can’t even fathom how I’m  going to make it through the quarter
• IHOP is as good as ever, just don’t let Michael order all you can eat pancakes if you’d like to leave at a reasonable time
• My soda maker still works!!!!!

Mike and I decided to test out all the flavors that I bought. I got Lemonade, Diet Lemon Lime, Ginger Ale, and Diet Orange. They’re all good, but Diet Lemon Lime is still my favorite. I love the soda maker and I cant believe I went for so long without using it. But now I’m going to use it all the time!

Getting Better

Today was much better than the past few days have been. It wasn’t great but it was definitely better.

I think it’s because the day started off on a much better foot than the rest of them have. I had class first thing, but it was with a teacher who I adore and it’s a class that I’ve really been excited to take (Typography). I was like a giddy little kid as I looked through the book at all the examples and typographic art. I’m going to LOVE this class.

My teacher even mentioned one of my all-time favorite designers during class too: David Carson who is touted as “one of the world’s most distinctive typographic voices — much imitated, never matched.” It was him that really got me interested in typography to begin with. Now I can only hope that since I’m taking this class I’ll get better at it! Wish me luck!

I’ve already started working on my first project! (Gasp! Whitters isn’t waiting until the last minute? She must be sick!) We had to pick a single letter from one of the typefaces that is featured in our book. Of course I wanted to pick a letter from my name, and while browsing through the different fonts I fell in love with the “g” from Baskerville Regular (the new version, not the old) so I decided to use that. We have to take the letter and use it to demonstrate a variety of concepts. In the picture is the first concept: Scale. The others are Figure/Ground, Continuation, Pattern and Space. I’ve already got ideas for Continuation and Pattern, so I’ll probably get them done tonight before I go to bed.

So yes, I’m feeling much better. And to top it all off: MIKE IS COMING TOMORROW! He called tonight and asked if it was alright if he came down. It couldn’t have come at a better time because I really need to see him. Needless to say, tomorrow is going to be a great day! I proclaim it and so it shall be so! I’ve only got one class (Web Development … lol) and then its Mike-time! I’m so excited!

Another One Bites the Dust

I actually had to really sit down and think about whether or not I was going to blog today. Originally I wasn’t going to, but I decided that in order to keep up the streak I’ve been on I might as well at least throw something up.

Today has been yet another horrible day to the point where I just want to crawl into bed, snuggle up with Mandy, and die. It just seems like everything that could possibly go wrong is going wrong and I’d much prefer just to pack it all in right now.

I’ve had Mandy for as long as I can remember, and she goes everywhere with me. When I have a bad day she usually gets squished to stuffy-death when I crawl into bed. And I do believe that may be happening tonight.

But I’ve made a to do list for tomorrow and promised myself that I’d get it all done. Since one of the things that has been upsetting me lately is the fact that I have absolutely no motivation, I figure that if I can start getting things on my bigger to do list done, then maybe I won’t feel so overwhelmed.

Day From Hell

So remember yesterday when I said I was going to do something to cheer myself up? Well that didn’t happen. In fact, my day has been anything but cheerful.

Last night I could not, for the life of me, fall asleep. So my day began with zombie Whitters rolling out of bed at 7:15 a.m. so that I could head to my 8:00 class. I got ready and trudged over to the school in the cold only to get to my room and just sit there…

By 8:15 I realized something was very, very wrong. I was about to go out and look around in the hall when the registrar stopped into the room and informed me that a) my class had been changed to Thursday morning and b) my entire schedule had to be rearranged as a result (and because I picked up my schedule yesterday morning like we were supposed to, I was thus not informed of item a).

My new, new, new schedule

So now, ladies and gentlemen, my schedule has changed 3 times in a 48-hour period and I am pissed. And on top of that I am being forced to deal with Internet access from hell, so my patience and mental stability are basically on a downward spiral at the moment. Read the rest of this entry »